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Women in war

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  • Boer War: article "Women in the war", with an illustration of Queen Victoria with families of reservists at Windsor. Text by A. Hugh Fisher, and halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • Boer War: article "Women in the war", with an illustration of Queen Victoria with families of reservists at Windsor. Text by A. Hugh Fisher, and halftone after S. Begg, 1900.
  • Boer War: the Princess of Wales at the National Bazaar in aid of war victims, being presented with a bouquet of flowers. Halftone after B. Salmon, 1903.
  • Boer War: people queueing to fill buckets from a well in the women's laager in Mafeking (Mahikeng), South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after W. Weekes.
  • Boer War: people, tents and the field hospital at the women's laager in Mafeking (Mahikeng), South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after W. Weekes.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    King Robert the Bruce saves the life of a mother and her new born infant on a battlefield in Ireland. Engraving by J. Burnet, 1842, after W. Allan, 1840.

    Allan, William, 1782-1850. | Date: [1842] | Reference: 3223724i
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    Boer War: page two of an article entitled "women in the war" with illustrations of a ceremony on the hospital ship "Maine" and the hospital ship "Princess of Wales". Halftone, 1900, after text by A. Hugh Fisher and pictures by S. Begg.

    Begg, Samuel, active 1886-1900. | Date: [1900] | Reference: 23847i
    • Books

    Heroines of the rebellion, or, Woman's work in the civil war : a record of heroism, patriotism and patience / by L.P. Brockett and Mrs. Mary C. Vaughan, with an introduction by Henry W. Bellows.

    Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893. | Date: [date of publication not identified]
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    Women in war and resistance : selected biographies of Soviet women soldiers / Kazimiera Janina Cottam.

    Cottam, Kazimiera Janina. | Date: 1998
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    Fearless : Dorothie Feilding's war in Flanders, 1914-1917 / Patrick Vanleene ; translated from the Dutch by Daphne Vanleene.

    Vanleene, Patrick, 1952- | Date: 2015
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